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title: “You mean,” interrupted Ryōseki, “the stealing of the holy _mamori_,… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: “You mean,” interrupted Ryōseki, “the stealing of the holy _mamori_, the _Kai-On-Nyōrai_. Who acts: You. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 5, sentence 88

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“You mean,” interrupted Ryōseki, “the stealing of the holy \_mamori\_, the \_Kai-On-Nyōrai\_.

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**Who acts:** You · **What happens:** mean, interrupt · **To what, where:** Ryōseki · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg8128:7:88
# text = “You mean,” interrupted Ryōseki, “the stealing of the holy _mamori_, the _Kai-On-Nyōrai_.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	mean	mean	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
6	interrupted	interrupt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	Ryōseki	Ryōseki	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	stealing	stealing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	holy	holy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	nmod	_	_
15	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	mamori	mamori	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	7	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
20	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	Kai	Kai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	On	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	Nyōrai	Nyōrai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** *in a quote* | present | You |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **interrupt** | past |  | Ryōseki |  |  |  | Kai and Nyōrai *nsubj* | tree rules |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Project Gutenberg book 8128 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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